Their notable capacity to explore the geographical conditions, local kinship and clientship networks, entrepreneurial opportunities and the weakness of the Portuguese presence in the region, underlines the fact that their brokerage roles are fundamental to an understanding of the region's checkered history.

In the Third World the satellite or `client' states of both superpowers followed their leaders, while states which had no particular relation or clientship with either party were divided, and most of Latin America took part in the Games.

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